I also think the CD ruined the album. Before the CD, you had a choice: buy the record or buy the cassette. Either way, it was a pain to listen to the same song over and over. You pretty much were forced to listen to the whole album. Lesser known songs on the album grew on you because you heard them as much as you heard the hits. Once the CD came along, it was easy to skip songs and only listen to the "hits".
I find myself doing this too. Sometimes, I force myself to listen to an entire album on my iPod rather than just shuffling the songs I've rated.
EA pays for their exclusive contracts with the NFL. Its easier to spend money for that exclusive contract than to spend on development and have to deal with competition.
Thats why professional golf sucks. Why should you be quiet? Make a lot of noise, and then we'll see who the good golfers are. Tiger would still dominate, but it would be a hell of a lot more fun.
Don't you realize in the last 6 months, every bit of breaking news was picked up on Twitter faster than any legitimate news source? Where did I hear about MJ first? Twitter. Where did I hear about Iran? Twitter. News will continue. But historical ways of covering the news are dying.
Well, you're entitled to your own opinion. Snow Leopard is laying the base for future versions of OS X. There won't be a lot of visible enhancements in Snow Leopard, but there are changes under the hood. Plus the OS gets smaller.
They'll migrate if their buddies migrate. If the momentum swings towards migration, Win 7 will happen fast. Look how fast Sharepoint is taking over corporate America. CIO's are drinking the kool-aid. They are being wined and dined by Microsoft's best salespeople. If these salespeople start pushing Win 7 on corporate America, the migration will occur pretty fast.
I am in the process of scanning a few thousand negatives that I have found at my parents house. I am scanning them at 3000dpi and storing them in Aperture after doing some corrections on them. Any photos I find that correspond to these negatives gets tossed. The negatives then get stored in the negative sheets and put away for safekeeping. The scanned images get backed up to Amazon S3. My wife thinks I'm crazy but this is history. I want my children to know their grandparents and great-grandparents.
Some of the negatives I have go back to the 1940's when my mom was around 6 or 7 years old. The film quality was bad, but with the help of VueScan and Aperture, these B&W's are coming out great. You can see these here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffself/
You do know that Microsoft wrote OS/2 for IBM? And basically sabotaged it when they started working on Windows 3.0. IBM basically had to rewrite OS/2 themselves because it was so crappy. And Microsoft was first out the door with Windows 95 apps by months compared to Lotus and Wordperfect. Why? They were using secret API's the others had no access to. Believe me, the Microsoft of the 90's cheated at every opportunity to get where they were. They were cool in the 80's. Cheaters in the 90's and just plain old incompetent this decade. Maybe they are turning the corner with Bing and Windows 7. Who knows?
You could set up a Document Management System like Alfresco or god-forbid, Sharepoint. Or you could run OS X Server and let Spotlight index everything.
ZFS doesn't make the cut for 10.6. Disappointing but there must be a reason. For one thing, 10.6 is about speed not features. So maybe ZFS still is in the works for 10.7. And 10.7 may be out sooner than we think. Maybe I'll invest in a drobo and give it a shot.
Except don't expect Hulu to give you alacarte either. They will bundle just like cable. Get you to pay $20 a month or something. I knew this was coming from Hulu.
I should know. I work for a city government and we are getting ready to bring in Sharepoint. No business plan, no requirements documents like are needed for the small web apps I write. We're bringing Sharepoint in because the CIO is a sheep just like 95% of the other CIO's out there. If they see others doing it, they're going to follow suit. Meanwhile, due to budget constraints, our libraries will be open fewer hours. Yep, we've got our priorities in order.
I'm an Apple fan. I own 2 MacBook Pro's, a Mac mini, and a Power Mac G5. Notice I still have a Power Mac G5. It needs to go but what do I replace it with? Spend $3000 - $4000 for a new Mac Pro? Or settle for an iMac. Thats out of the question. No expandability. Plus it will cost another $700 to upgrade to 8GB of memory because it only contains two memory slots and 4GB DDR3 modules are not cheap. Alternative: Build my own machine for around $1500 - $2000 and hope that I can get OS X to run on it. I run Final Cut Pro so Linux is out of the question. Now if Adobe ever released Photoshop and Premiere, I would probably move back to Linux.
I have to write code in an environment where I can't choose the technology, but the managers are incompetent with regards to technology! They just listen to salespeople.
While I'm not a fan of Flash, at least it supports H.264 now. Microsoft, on the other hand, instead of embracing H.264, tried to compete with it. Business as usual.
I was at PyCon week before last in Chicago. I guess all the netbooks not running Windows were there. They were all running Linux. What a great conference. Saw no more than 10 Windows laptops the whole time. Majority were MacBook Pros and MacBooks. Overwhelming majority of HP's and Dell's were running Linux. About 1000 people in attendance.
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I also think the CD ruined the album. Before the CD, you had a choice: buy the record or buy the cassette. Either way, it was a pain to listen to the same song over and over. You pretty much were forced to listen to the whole album. Lesser known songs on the album grew on you because you heard them as much as you heard the hits. Once the CD came along, it was easy to skip songs and only listen to the "hits".
I find myself doing this too. Sometimes, I force myself to listen to an entire album on my iPod rather than just shuffling the songs I've rated.
EA pays for their exclusive contracts with the NFL. Its easier to spend money for that exclusive contract than to spend on development and have to deal with competition.
Yet, the technical or sophisticated user tends to go with a Mac. Why is that? Don't believe me? Visit a developer's conference.
Thats why professional golf sucks. Why should you be quiet? Make a lot of noise, and then we'll see who the good golfers are. Tiger would still dominate, but it would be a hell of a lot more fun.
Don't you realize in the last 6 months, every bit of breaking news was picked up on Twitter faster than any legitimate news source? Where did I hear about MJ first? Twitter. Where did I hear about Iran? Twitter. News will continue. But historical ways of covering the news are dying.
Well, you're entitled to your own opinion. Snow Leopard is laying the base for future versions of OS X. There won't be a lot of visible enhancements in Snow Leopard, but there are changes under the hood. Plus the OS gets smaller.
They'll migrate if their buddies migrate. If the momentum swings towards migration, Win 7 will happen fast. Look how fast Sharepoint is taking over corporate America. CIO's are drinking the kool-aid. They are being wined and dined by Microsoft's best salespeople. If these salespeople start pushing Win 7 on corporate America, the migration will occur pretty fast.
Hate to break it to you, but the Flash plugin sucks on every platform.
I am in the process of scanning a few thousand negatives that I have found at my parents house. I am scanning them at 3000dpi and storing them in Aperture after doing some corrections on them. Any photos I find that correspond to these negatives gets tossed. The negatives then get stored in the negative sheets and put away for safekeeping. The scanned images get backed up to Amazon S3. My wife thinks I'm crazy but this is history. I want my children to know their grandparents and great-grandparents.
Some of the negatives I have go back to the 1940's when my mom was around 6 or 7 years old. The film quality was bad, but with the help of VueScan and Aperture, these B&W's are coming out great. You can see these here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffself/
You do know that Microsoft wrote OS/2 for IBM? And basically sabotaged it when they started working on Windows 3.0. IBM basically had to rewrite OS/2 themselves because it was so crappy. And Microsoft was first out the door with Windows 95 apps by months compared to Lotus and Wordperfect. Why? They were using secret API's the others had no access to. Believe me, the Microsoft of the 90's cheated at every opportunity to get where they were. They were cool in the 80's. Cheaters in the 90's and just plain old incompetent this decade. Maybe they are turning the corner with Bing and Windows 7. Who knows?
"...will make H.264 the primary codec and relegate the equally good open format Ogg/Theora firmly to the sidelines."
Equally good my ass. H.264 is way beyound what Ogg/Theora is capable of.
You could set up a Document Management System like Alfresco or god-forbid, Sharepoint. Or you could run OS X Server and let Spotlight index everything.
ZFS doesn't make the cut for 10.6. Disappointing but there must be a reason. For one thing, 10.6 is about speed not features. So maybe ZFS still is in the works for 10.7. And 10.7 may be out sooner than we think. Maybe I'll invest in a drobo and give it a shot.
And it wasn't even AT&T. Apple signed on with Cingular before AT&T bought Cingular out.
5 years ago I was arguing the same thing except I was questioning why everything was only packaged up as RPM.
Except don't expect Hulu to give you alacarte either. They will bundle just like cable. Get you to pay $20 a month or something. I knew this was coming from Hulu.
I should know. I work for a city government and we are getting ready to bring in Sharepoint. No business plan, no requirements documents like are needed for the small web apps I write. We're bringing Sharepoint in because the CIO is a sheep just like 95% of the other CIO's out there. If they see others doing it, they're going to follow suit. Meanwhile, due to budget constraints, our libraries will be open fewer hours. Yep, we've got our priorities in order.
This is one of those. Where else could a company come up with a plan like this?
I'll sleep better knowing we have patriots like this in our country.
I'm an Apple fan. I own 2 MacBook Pro's, a Mac mini, and a Power Mac G5. Notice I still have a Power Mac G5. It needs to go but what do I replace it with? Spend $3000 - $4000 for a new Mac Pro? Or settle for an iMac. Thats out of the question. No expandability. Plus it will cost another $700 to upgrade to 8GB of memory because it only contains two memory slots and 4GB DDR3 modules are not cheap. Alternative: Build my own machine for around $1500 - $2000 and hope that I can get OS X to run on it. I run Final Cut Pro so Linux is out of the question. Now if Adobe ever released Photoshop and Premiere, I would probably move back to Linux.
I have to write code in an environment where I can't choose the technology, but the managers are incompetent with regards to technology! They just listen to salespeople.
I just saw someone with an iPod AND a cellphone. Definitely must be a terrorist. Better call their hotline. 877- 4VA-TIPS
She wasn't speaking for you. She said she was ashamed he was from Texas. Not Texans are ashamed he is from Texas.
While I'm not a fan of Flash, at least it supports H.264 now. Microsoft, on the other hand, instead of embracing H.264, tried to compete with it. Business as usual.
I was at PyCon week before last in Chicago. I guess all the netbooks not running Windows were there. They were all running Linux. What a great conference. Saw no more than 10 Windows laptops the whole time. Majority were MacBook Pros and MacBooks. Overwhelming majority of HP's and Dell's were running Linux. About 1000 people in attendance.
What a wonderful week.